Provocation to whom, exactly? Unless russia has unsavoury designs on foreign nations, why does it have to be concerned about poland? (we all know polands propensity for starting wars of aggression and conquest hehe)
Russia doesn't do itself any favours with its 'grumpy soviet bear' attitude and veiled threats against supposed allies.
On a personal note, I wouldn't swallow such a bleeding heart point of view from my own government, and especially not from a country with a history of conquest and subjugation and brutality like russias. Murdering dissidents in foreign countries and point blank refusing to hand over the prime suspects to the appropriate authorities in that country just goes to show that the 'means and architecture' of oppression are still in attendance, even if they are not publicly acknowleged.
Small wonder then that many nations view the former soviet union with fear and distrust, even today when we're all meant to be 'best friends'
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Originally Posted by Kazuaki Shimazaki II
Fake smile or real smile, when you keep kicking someone who's smiling, don't blame him for dropping it.
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Perhaps so, but when that someone has a reputation as a totalitarian nut-job which precedes them through the ages, you'd expect such a 'reformed character' to show a little understanding and willingness to go a little bit further to demonstrate their good intent, instead of falling back into the old ways and habits of oppression and warmongering rhetoric.